Lambert looking for upset

Wycombe manager Paul Lambert insists his side‘s Carling Cup quarter-final tie at Barclays Premiership strugglers Charlton is an occasion to be savoured despite the more glamorous ties on offer this season.

Wycombe manager Paul Lambert insists his side‘s Carling Cup quarter-final tie at Barclays Premiership strugglers Charlton is an occasion to be savoured despite the more glamorous ties on offer this season.

The League Two Chairboys missed out on a plum meeting with Arsenal, Liverpool or Chelsea but travel to The Valley with a chance to add to Charlton‘s woes this season and reach the semi-finals – a feat they achieved in the FA Cup five years ago.

Roy Essandoh was the unlikely hero back in 2001, having answered a Teletext advert for a striker to head Lawrie Sanchez‘s mix-and-match line-up past Leicester and into a last-four meeting with Liverpool at Villa Park.

And Lambert, whose side have so far accounted for Fulham, Swansea, Doncaster and Notts County in the competition this season, is relishing the opportunity to emulate Sanchez‘s achievement and add Charlton to Wycombe‘s list of conquests.

"Some people have groaned about it which I find unbelievable," said Lambert.

"Getting beyond Fulham in round two was historic for the club and if you‘d said we‘d have been in the quarter-final of this competition against a Premiership side at the start of the season it would have been incredible.

"They‘re a top-class side and it‘s a brilliant draw for us. But it didn‘t matter who we got."

Lambert feels his players have not received the credit they deserve for their efforts in this season‘s competition, where they have become the first team from English football‘s fourth tier to reach the last eight since Doncaster in 1976.

But he is determined to give Charlton and under-fire head coach Les Reed a run for their money and insists his side are capable of capitalising on the Addicks‘ low confidence.

"What the players have given to get to this stage – the first team to do it in 30 years – is miraculous," he added.

"It‘s going to be tough but we‘ll enjoy it and do our utmost to get through."